I'm just an internet stranger, but I'm proud of your growth. Many people in similar positions would've spent those years digging themselves deeper, because confronting the cognitive dissonance is not easy (you may well have spent some of that time digging deeper, but you made it out, and I'm glad you're here with us)
AnarchistArtificer
joined 2 years ago
Based on what I'm hearing coming from the Democrats lately, I also feel like this could be argued it's also Sanders trying to reconcile with his party (by showing them how fucking dumb they're being by doubling down on their anti-left nonsense)
What the fuuuuck
You know, I'm actually not surprised. I wish I was, but I'm not.
It do be a slippery slope though
Yeah, respect to the dude
I think it certainly helps with flavour if nothing else, but I don't think the extra degree or so in temperature would make much difference.
Though saying that, I'm now wondering to what extent rice cooking would be affected by high altitudes — I had a friend who lived somewhere high altitude in South America for a while, and she said that the low atmospheric pressure meant cooking certain foods was difficult because the water boiled at a lower temperature (I wish I could remember more specifics)
I once met some people who were in a huge, complex polecule and they joked that it was the only way they could afford homeownership in London.
That seems wrong to me. Adding salt doesn't increase the boiling temperature much
You showed me yours, so I'll show you mine 
What a beautiful little trash gremlin
That's a pretty facetious reply. Lemmy has tons of ways of curating your feeds and that's one of its big strengths in my opinion.
This isn't about seeing the occasional bit of NSFW material (which I still see occasionally on my Lemmy feed, despite having blocked a bunch of NSFW communities). This latest Instagram debacle involved people's entire feeds being full of not just pornography, but also heavily NSFL gore stuff.
However, the real crux of this issue is clear when I imagine how I'd feel if a problem like this happened with Lemmy — I'd be unhappy, but I wouldn't flee the platform, because I trust various admins to not bullshit me about what had happened and what was going to be done in future. Meta has burned through any goodwill it might've once had, and the only thing that's transparent about them is their bullshit
The leading theory for the cause is (and bear in mind I'm simplifying a heckton here) "we don't know". There's possibly a genetic component involved, but if so, then it's super complex and doesn't have a clear causal mechanism (in that a person could have most/all of the genes of interest for autism, and not be autistic, and we don't really know why that is. Or why some people have none of those markers, but still have autism). Environmental contamination is a possibility, but we don't know nearly enough to guess what that would be, given that it wouldn't necessarily be microplastics
But there definitely is a lot of evidence supporting OP's claim, in that we are very confident that our increased understanding of autism has led to an increase in diagnoses (especially amongst groups such as girls; I am one of those girls who only got a diagnosis because of our shifts in understanding). We are extremely confident that our rate of false negatives has dropped over the years (i.e. people who actually do have autism but go undiagnosed). However, it's hard to estimate whether the actual underlying true rate of autism has actually gone up, given how much our understanding has changed in a relatively short span